OPINION (CP) – A pastor in the U.K. who miraculously came back to life after being dead for 15 minutes has credited the “power of prayer” and “divine providence” for saving him. In November, Christopher Wickland, pastor of Living Word Pentecostal Church in Fareham, Hampshire, was jumping at a trampoline park with three of his youngest children when he began vomiting and collapsed, the Daily Echo reports.
Staff used a defibrillator four times to restart his heart, and he was then rushed to the intensive care unit of St Mary’s Hospital, Southampton. There, doctors informed his wife, Tracey, that he had suffered a cardiac arrest and had died for 15 minutes. They also warned her that he could suffer brain and heart damage should he survive.
Tracey told the Daily Mail that immediately after learning of her husband’s illness, she contacted members of a prayer network that they are part of to start praying for him. “‘I put it on Facebook and it was amazing because hundreds of people from around the world contacted me and told me they were praying for Chris,” she said, adding that while the jump park staff and doctors did an “incredible job,” her husband would be dead “if it wasn’t for all these people praying.” READ MORE
